BERT HARDY

In 1938 Hardy became one of the first photographers to use a Leica 35mm camera. After working as a freelance photographer he was recruited by Tom Hopkinson, the editor of Picture Post. Hardy became famous for his photographs of the Blitz and in 1942 was drafted into an army photographic unit.

CONTACT SHEET - Digital

Below are the contact sheets from my shoots. included are original and edited versions.

FAY GODWIN

Fay Godwin’s black and white landscapes were, and indeed still are, haunting and brooding in the main. Printed dark and with lots of contrast, she has practically never once cropped her negatives, choosing to construct her images purely through the groundglass screen of her Hasselblad.

Influenced by Bill Brandt and Paul Strand, she looks for the narrative in her landscapes, choosing to record man’s relationship with the environment. She’s made it her niche.

“I’ve always been interested in our relationship with the land. There is so much of great beauty and historical interest"

http://www.ephotozine.com

after looking into Godwin's photos I wanted to try and achieve a similar effect using black and white high contrast and also thought this would help with achieving the aged effect I wanted to relate my pictures back to the war.

images taken from google images.

MARK POWER

as part of my research i looked at Mark Powers website. the link below is from some of his work which has influenced the way i decided to photogrpah and also how i intend on presenting my work as well.

http://www.markpower.co.uk/projects/THE-SHIPPING-FORECAST

some of the images i found inspiring for the work of mark power:

To date Power has published five monographs: The Shipping Forecast (1996), a poetic response to the esoteric language of daily maritime weather reports; Superstructure (2000), a documentation of the construction of London's Millennium Dome; The Treasury Project (2002), about the restoration of a nineteenth-century historical monument: 26 Different Endings (2007), which documents those landscapes unlucky enough to fall just off the edge of the London A-Z, a map which could be said to define the boundaries of the British capital; and The Sound of Two Songs (2010), the culmination of his five year project set in contemporary Poland.

EDITED IMAGES FROM 1st PHOTOSHOOT

below are all my chosen edited images. all editing took place in lightroom and i decided to only use black and white which was another way for me to try and achieve the aged effect i wanted.

INITIAL INTENTIONS & IMAGES

After deciding on what i was going to be using for the brief I narrowed down the areas I was going to photograph and and also researched some more photographers work including Mark Power, Fay Godwin both and also some war time photographers including Bill Brandt and Bert Hardy.

When taking the pictures I didn't want to be confined to photographing only the areas where the bombs hit directly and decided that I would go to the area and if there was something else close by i would use that instead, similar to Mark Power in his body of work 'The Shipping Forecasts.' I also want to try and give the images an aged look so found myself focusing on the more run down areas I visited, this wasn't possible in some locations as you can see for the images below.

all images below are unedited and taken using a canon 50D, 50mm f1.8 lens.